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Dear Alec - : a tribute for his eightieth birthday / from friends known and unknown.: PB 42-1989

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Titles

Dear Alec - : a tribute for his eightieth birthday / from friends known and unknown.

Maker(s)

Contributor: Britten, Benjamin
Contributor: Bliss, Arthur
Printer: Stanbrook Abbey

Categories

Description

Contributors include John, Cardinal Heenan and music by Benjamin Britten and Arthur Bliss.

Place(s) associated

  • Worcester

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1989) by Hall, David J.

Dating

1972 CE - 172 CE

Note

"Set at the keyboard in Monotype 'Spectrum' re-justified by hand & printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester on Hodgkinson's cream-laid handmade paper, the photographs reproduced by the Cotswold Collotype Co. Ltd. Line-blocks by the Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, Manchester. Monogram by Margaret Adams. This edition comprises 60 special numbered copies bound in full leather with slip case by George Percival, Leicester. 135 copies in various papers & bindings for private circulation among contributors & friends."--Colophon Museum has one of the 135 copies. Binding: White paper over card which is mainly covered by strip of handmade paper decorated with dried grass.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 42-1989
Primary reference Number: 99082
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 22 June 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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